“I don’t care how self-righteous the Culture feels, or how many people the Idirans kill. They’re on the side of life – boring, old-fashioned biological life; smelly, fallible, short-sighted, God knows, but real life. You’re ruled by your machines. You’re an evolutionary dead end.”

“I don’t care how self-righteous the Culture feels, or how many people the Idirans kill. They’re on the side of life – boring, old-fashioned biological life; smelly, fallible, short-sighted, God knows, but real life. You’re ruled by your machines. You’re an evolutionary dead end.”

— Iain M. Banks